Firearms

State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session

Relating To Firearms. [SB-3043]
Amends section 134-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to increase the time a permit to acquire a firearm can be used from 10 days to 30 days. Amends section 134-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to eliminate physical inspection of firearms generally, but requires physical inspection of firearms brought into the State, firearms involved in private sales or transfers, and firearms and firearm receivers with engraved or embedded serial numbers.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Kouchi The Committee On Psm Deferred The Measure. on 02/03/2022

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session

Relating To Firearms. [SB-2800]
Requires appropriate training before applying for or renewing a license to carry a handgun. Reduces the term of a license to carry a handgun from one year to six months.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Lee Re-referred To Jdc. on 02/01/2022

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session

Relating To The Uniform Probate Code. [SB-2873]
Requires a personal representative of a decedent appointed under the Uniform Probate Code to notify the police department of the appropriate county of any and all firearms in an estate. Requires the police department to certify that all firearms in an estate are properly transferred or disposed of before the estate may close.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Joy San Buenaventura Passed First Reading. on 01/24/2022

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Hunters, certain; right to go on lands of another. [HB-1344]
Right of certain hunters to go on lands of another. Creates exceptions to the prohibition on hunters carrying firearms or bows and arrows on their persons or hunting any game while thereon if (i) their dog is in immediate danger or (ii) they obtained prior permission from the landowner or his agent. The bill also provides that, prior to going on prohibited lands to retrieve his dog during legal, daylight hunting hours, if the land is so posted, a hunter shall attempt to contact the landowner by phone, text, or email using contact information that (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. James Edmunds Passed By Indefinitely In Agriculture, Conservation And Natural Resources (10-y 5-n) on 03/01/2022

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Firearms; control of firearms by localities, concealed handgun permit exception. [SB-763]
Control of firearms by localities; concealed handgun permit exception. Provides that any local ordinance that prohibits the possession or carrying of firearms, ammunition, or components or any combination thereof in (i) any building, or part thereof, owned or used by such locality for governmental purposes; (ii) any public park owned or operated by the locality; (iii) any recreation or community center facility; or (iv) any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, or public right-of-way or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain Incorporated By Judiciary on 01/26/2022

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Child day center; possession of firearm, license exempt facility. [HB-1335]
Possession of firearm, child day center; license exempt facility.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Tony Wilt Left In Rules on 02/15/2022

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Firearms; criminal history record information check required to sell, exception. [SB-675]
Criminal history record information check required to sell firearm; exception for purchase of service weapon. Provides that the purchase of a service weapon by a retired law-enforcement officer is not subject to a criminal history record information check.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0270) on 04/08/2022

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Firearms; removing, altering, etc., serial number, selling, etc., or possessing. [HB-1306]
Removing, altering, etc., serial number on firearm; selling, giving, etc., or possessing firearm with removed, altered, etc., serial number; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person, firm, association, or corporation to knowingly possess any pistol, shotgun, rifle, machine gun, or any other firearm that has a serial number that has been removed, altered, changed, destroyed, or obliterated in any manner. The bill also makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person, firm, association, or corporation to sell, give, or distribute any pistol, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy Continued To 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 Pursuant To Hjr455 on 03/12/2022

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session

Relating To Firearms. [SB-2363]
Authorizes the Department of the Attorney General to develop and implement a state program to allow active and retired law enforcement officers to carry a concealed firearm in the State pursuant to the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004. Makes a conforming amendment to state firearm laws.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Gil Keith-agaran Referred To Psm, Jdc. on 01/24/2022

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Firearms; criminal history record information check required to sell. [SB-644]
Criminal history record information check required to sell firearm; exception for concealed handgun permit. Provides that a person may sell a firearm through a private sale to another person if the sale of a firearm is to a person who (i) has a valid Virginia resident concealed handgun permit, (ii) produces the permit to the seller at the time of sale, and (iii) is not prohibited under state or federal law from possessing a firearm.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Travis Hackworth Passed By Indefinitely In Judiciary (9-y 6-n) on 01/26/2022

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Firearms; removing, altering, etc., serial number, selling, etc., or possessing. [SB-643]
Removing, altering, etc., serial number on firearm; selling, giving, etc., or possessing firearm with removed, altered, etc., serial number; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person, firm, association, or corporation to knowingly possess any pistol, shotgun, rifle, machine gun, or any other firearm, except for an antique firearm, that has a serial number that has been removed, altered, changed, destroyed, or obliterated in any manner. The bill also makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, firm, association, or corporation to knowingly (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin Left In Public Safety on 03/08/2022

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Capitol Square and the surrounding area, etc.; carrying a firearm or explosive material within area. [HB-1166]
Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; penalty. Repeals the prohibition on carrying a firearm or explosive material within (i) the Capitol of Virginia; (ii) Capitol Square and the surrounding area; (iii) any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or any agency thereof; or (iv) any office where employees of the Commonwealth or any agency thereof are regularly present for the purpose of performing their official duties. Current law makes (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Lee Ware Left In Rules on 02/15/2022

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State (South Dakota)
South Dakota 2022 Regular Session

Revise the safety zone within which a firearm may be discharged or trapping activities may occur. [HB-1072]
Revise the safety zone within which a firearm may be discharged or trapping activities may occur.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Larry Zikmund House Of Representatives Do Pass, Failed, Yeas 19, Nays 45. H.j. 215 on 02/04/2022

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State (Arizona)
Arizona Fifty-fifth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2022)

Firearm transfers; domestic violence; offenses [HB-2404]
Firearm transfers; domestic violence; offenses

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Reginald Bolding Introduced In House And Read First Time on 06/23/2022

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State (Arizona)
Arizona Fifty-fifth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2022)

Firearms safety; training; schools [HB-2448]
Firearms safety; training; schools

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Boyer Senate Majority Caucus: Do Pass on 03/28/2022

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State (Arizona)
Arizona Fifty-fifth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2022)

Firearms; contracts; prohibited practices [HB-2473]
Firearms; contracts; prohibited practices

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Livingston Senate Approp Committee Action: Do Pass Amended, Voting: (6-4-0-0) on 03/29/2022

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention, Virginia Center; established. [SB-487]
Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention; Virginia Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund; creation. Establishes the Virginia Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention (the Center) within the Department of Criminal Justice Services and transfers to the Center the administration of the existing Virginia Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention Fund.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan Continued To 2022 Sp. Sess. 1 Pursuant To Hjr455 on 03/12/2022

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State (South Dakota)
South Dakota 2022 Regular Session

Prohibit the personal possession of a loaded firearm while under the influence of marijuana or intoxicated. [HB-1066]
Prohibit the personal possession of a loaded firearm while under the influence of marijuana or intoxicated.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jim Stalzer Scheduled For Hearing H.j. 1 on 02/14/2022

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Protective orders; possession of firearms. [HB-1051]
Protective orders; possession of firearms. Allows a person subject to a protective order to continue to possess any firearm while in his place of residence that was possessed by such person at the time of service, provided that he is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing a firearm. The bill removes the requirement that any person subject to a protective order must surrender his firearms within 24 hours of being served with a protective order.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Scott Left In Rules on 02/15/2022

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State (Virginia)
Virginia 2022 Regular Session

Law-enforcement officers; exemption from prohibition on carrying firearms, etc., in Capitol Square. [HB-1096]
Law-enforcement officers; retired law-enforcement officers; carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area. Exempts any law-enforcement officer from the prohibition on carrying a firearm or explosive material within the Capitol of Virginia and Capitol Square and the surrounding area. The bill further allows any law-enforcement officer or qualified retired law-enforcement officer to carry a firearm or explosive material within any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or any agency thereof, or any office (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. G. Avoli Left In Public Safety on 02/15/2022

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